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A. T. BOOTH. WATER CLOSET. .No. 526,008. Patented Sept. 11, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ALPHEUS T. BOOTH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE HAINES, JONES dz OADBURY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,008, dated September 11, 1894. Application filed February 16. 1894. Serial No- 500,335. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHEUS T. BOOTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ater-Closets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a water-closet provided with a detachable lid or seat; and it relates more particularly to the construction of the water-closet and arrangement of the lid or seat so as to be readily detached therefrom.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a water-closet bowl with end pockets or sockets for the reception of devices provided with pintles to which the lid or seat is in pivotal connection and so arranged as topermit of the ready detachment of the lid or seat therefrom in order to thoroughly cleanse the parts of the closet bowl and for other purposes; and, second, to providea water-closet bowel with rear end pockets or sockets for the reception of detachable devices having tongues adapted to snugly fit the same and having strips for concealing said pockets or sockets and with lateral threaded pintles for supporting the hinged bearings of the lid or seat and held thereto by means of studs or screws secured into said pintles, whereby the lid or seat is held in required position against sidewise displacement and also for eifective action in the use thereof, and as so arranged the lid or seat can be readily detached from the bowl for repairs in the event of a broken hinge or of the breaking of the supporting device therefor, without disturbing the bowl and the water connections thereof.

My invention stated in general terms, consists of a water-closet bowl provided with rear projections having pockets or sockets adapted for the reception of devices provided with pintles, tongues adapted to seat in said sockets or pockets and said pintles engaged by hearing plates of a lid 0r seat; and my invention further consists of the improvements hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and general features of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in wh1ch Figure 1, is a perspective view of a water closet with rear end pockets or sockets and with a lid or seat detachably engaging therewith and embodying the features of my 1nvention. Fig. 2, is an end view of the lid or cover with the hinged or pivotal bearings engaging pintles of devices adapted to seat 1n 50 and with the rear end pockets or sockets of the water-closet bowl of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a similar view of the bowl and the lid or seat with the hinged or pivotal connections thereof in engagement with the devices" detaohably seating with the pockets or sockets of the bowl. Fig. 4, is aperspective view of one of the devices adapted to seat with a pocket or 'socket of the bowl and showing the general construction and arrangement thereof;

and Fig. 5, is a similar view of one of the hinged bearings of the lid or seat adapted to engage with a pintle ot' the device of Fig. 4, of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, Ais the water closet bowl provided with an inlet a, and with end projections a and a having pockets or sockets a and a formed therein 0t preferably the form illustrated in Fig. 1.

B, is the lid or seat arranged so as to conform to the shape or contour of the bowl A,

and fitting the top edge thereof.

O, is a device comprising a top strip 0, with a square end 0', and with a rounded end 0 and adapted to seat with the top surface of one of the projections a, or a 0 is a depending tongue or strip disposed at or about midway in the width of the strip 0, and having a rounded lower extremity 0 adapted to fit snugly a pocket or socket a or wardly from the strip 0 and forming a post 5 or support for the tubular bearing (1, of a recessed perforated plate D, adapted to be secured to the under side of the lid or seat B, by means of screws or the like.

0 is a screw and 0 a washer mounted rco thereon and fitting against the end of each pintle so as to hold the bearing 11, of each plate D, to required position in connection with a pintle 0 when the screw or stud c, is secured to place. For example,in the manner as fully illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

When the lid or seatB, has been secured to the hinged plates D, with the tubular bearings d, thereof in engagement with the pintles c of the devices 0, the latter are then caused to engage in and with the pockets or sockets a and a, of the water closet bowl A, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3, and the lid or seat may then be readily raised and lowered into contact with the top surface of the bowl; and when required the lid or seat may be removed from the bowl by slightly raising the same and therewith will be detached the devices O, from their engagement with the pockets a and at, of the bowl, by reason of the fact that the lid or seat is pivotally connected therewith through the bearings d, ongaging the pintles 0 in order to permit by the removal of the parts above mentioned, the thorough cleansing of the bowl and parts about the same without disturbing the inlet connection or the bowl, so that the closet can be kept at all times in a thoroughly clean or sanitary condition.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A water closet bowl provided with end pockets or sockets, a lid or seat provided with hinged bearings, tongues provided with vertical and longitudinal supporting and concealing strips and pintles, and means for support ing the bearings of said lid or seat to the pintles of the tongues adapted to be detachably seated in the pockets or sockets of said bowl, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALPHEUS T. BOOTH.

Witnesses:

THOMAS M. SMITH, RICHARD O. MAXWELL. 

